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Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-29
Better Times Ahead.

In view of the bountiful crops Of the
present year, the Tobacco crop being I'M.
except ionably good ana the curing remar-
kably fine, we conclude there viii be no
pressing want for the necessaries Of life
Consequently there will be less Of Corn and
Flour brought from distance and sold to
our farmers. In other words our farmers
generally will have . surplus. Although
hardly remunerative prices can be realized
for the surplus, yet from. the fact that
there is assurplus Of bread stufs in the
country better times to the laboring classes
and in fact, 70 all classes, will necessarily
follow.
In addition to this the Secretary Of the
Treasury with commendable fairness is
buying up the Az per cent unmatured
bonds for the express purpose Of putting
more currency in circulation thereby re-
heving the wants OF the people as to money
matters. and at the same time disposing. Of
. portion Of the surplus in the Treasury.
Therefore. it will not be hazardous to
predict that BY the 1st Of next March, mo
ney will bc much more plentiful than it is
now. and the farmers will get much better
.prices for their surplus. In view Of these
facts il would be advisable for our farmers
10 hold on to Their. surplus Of grain and not
be ip hurry to sell their Tobacco.
Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-29

William 0'Brien the great Irish
patriot and member of Parliament has
bsen convicted of a violation of the
crimes act and sent oprison for three
months, an appeal was taken. =! 8.
Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-29

Below We give an analysis Of the Water
recently discovered on the plantation Of
Capt. II. p. Jones near this place; by II. u
Battle Pin. ID.
Existing mainly as Bicarbonate Iron,
MagDesia Also present in smaller amounts,
Bicarbonate Lime. Chloride Of Soda.
Tie prominent mineral is Iron as above.
Your obj Sery't
II. d. BATTLE. Act. Director.
Competent Judges upoa seeing the Ana-
lysis say that this is good Mineral.
Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-29

One Of the great drawbacks in the way
Of poor people getting an education, is
what appears TO be the systematic eff,rt on
the part OF somebody. we know not who !,
TO continually change the books used in the
schools; almost every session different sci
Of books has TO be bonght. II the younger
children could use the same books as they
come along. that the older ones used, Il,
would not make so much difference, but
no, they won't do, you must buy new set
for every child you send to school, this i
heavy on poor man il he has lots Of chill
dren, and poor men always do. Well, il
may be right but We can't see it that way.
Soloman sail, ''of making many books
there is no end" Solom IN was then think.
ing Of our modern Schools.
We are aware that fashions change ra-
pidly, and we think that every new fashion
Of Ladies hats and dresses are pretty and
becoming, bntso much ei,nge in childrens
School books is not so fascinating.
Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-29

You viii find the REooRDER oPFrcE In
the brick building over Mrs. NJ. L. Tay
ior's Millinery Store. Come and SEQ us.
Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-29
NOTICE.

HAVING this day qualified as the Adj
ministratix Of WILLIAM WARREN, dec,
I hereby notify all persons indebted TO said
estate TO come forward and pay the same;
and all persons holding claims against said
estate to present them TO the nndersig ned
properly anthenticated on or before the
l7th day of September 1888. or this notice
will be plead in bar of their recovery. This
l7th Sept. 1887.
.as - Al. WARREN Adm'x. .
Sep. l7't6 OF William e. Warren.
Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-29

The Hillsboro Recorder expresses its gra-
tification at the success which has attended
It. The Recorder has earnel lis success,
aud has taken the rank ~ which its eiito-
rial talent most surely pointed from the
first issue OF the paper.
Aud we here take occasion to remark on
the oversight OF oar friends Of the ReeDrder.
We have received only two Numbers Of it
the 2nd aud the 9Th Please look to it,
Aslerilis CaiSen.
We thank the .'Citizen," for its high
complim ent aud Trust we may never grow
less in the estimation now held by oul
friends. We are sorry TO know tlat ou'
valued contemporary has not re ceived the
Recorder regularly. The faalt is moi
ours, we have regularly marked AMI IN iled
il ut this oflice. #-a ,+
Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-29

Mr.. Page Warren, son Of Page Warren
Of Durham County, was charged with I'LL.
cit distilhug and had 8 ahearing before Com
missioner Jones last ThursdAy.
II appears after investigation that it was
trumped up and malicious charge withou,
the least foundation phateyer and instigat-
cd by a negro by the name Of Dick Gra-
ham who bad been arrested and bound
over to Court for illicit destilliag upon the
Information Of Mr.. Warren and he took
this means by way OF retaliation.
Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-29
HIr,IsBoRo POST oFFIcE.

Office hours fro,u TX a. m. to BIS p. m
Every dag except sunday and on Sunday,
from IL m. 10 ! p. m.
H. L. PARISH. r. NJ.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-08
A New Feature in Fertilizer Laws

The Maine legislature has passed an act
requiring fertilizer manufacturers to regis
ter their trade marks at the Maine expert
ment station. and also to accompany all
goods sold for $40 or more with a guaranty
of composition. Failure to comply with
tins act means fine of from $25 to 800
for the first offense, and 500 to $500 Tor
each subsequent otfense. Provision is al
80 made for The inspection of these ferti
hzers by the experiment station. The act
goes into effect Oct. 1st next. The i'm
portant point of this legislation is to
abolish the tax upon fertilizers. Maine
is, we believe, the first State to follow the
example of New Jersey in not taxing
commercial fertilizers. We favor the idea
and would like to see it adopted wherever
fertilizers are sold on general principles.
The tax is paid by the farmer because the
manufacturer has to charge enough more
for his goods to paw the State tax If the
tax were abolished. competition would
prevent manufacturers from pocketing the
sum which they have heretofore expended
in paying the State tees. Of course where
the tax on fertilizers is set apart for
specific uses for the benefit OF farmers, it
is quite another matter. Thus in North
Carolina, the fees from the fertilizer tax
amount to nearly $4,000 year, all of
which is expended in supporting the board
of agriculture. the State Agricultural Col
lege and the State experiment station.
Thus the farmers who pay indirectly this
special tax get all the benefits accruing
from the money thus collected by the
State. 1t is not SO in some of the States
where the fees from the fertilizer industry
frequently exceed the appropriations for
agricultural purposes. This is not the
case in Massachusetts and Connecticut,
however, for the appropriation in behalf
of agriculture in these two States largely
exceeds the receipts from fertilizer taxes.
-New England Homestead.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-08
The Spring Campaign.

IN opening the spring campaign against
predatory insects. the first assault should
be made on the canker-worm moths,
which. in places where they have es'ab-
lished themselves, come QUITO the ground
during March and April, and ascend the
trees. The female insect is wingless. and
il suitable distractions are placed around
the trunks. she cannot pass them Numer-
Gus tree protectors have been invented,
some of which have been found very
effectual. 1t is we'll 10 keep poultry as
much as possible in the orchard; for the
purpose of picking up the moths as soon
as they make their appearance above the
surface. The eggs OF the tent-caterplllar,
which have been deposited near the forks
of branches, may be seen glistenlng in
the sun on fine days. The branches which
contain them should be cut off and burnt.
In the fruit garden the pruning OF trees.
bushes and canes that have been neglect
ed until now should be completed as soon
as possible Cuttings of gooseberries,
currants. grape-vines and of all valuable
trees, bushes and shrubs that are propa-
gated in this way should be taken off now,
and kept from exposure to frost and from
whitening until the soil is in proper con-
dition to receive them. Every farmer
should have a small nursery in which
TO raise choice fruit trees. bushes, ever
green's and Towering shrubs. By this
means the homestead may be beautified
and improved in comfort and value, with
out much expense. Half hardy fruit trees
shrubs, etc, which have been protected
in winter, should have The coverings re-
moved. This should not be- done until all
danger from frost is over, tor sometimes
plants which have been brought safely
through winter are killed in Spring by
exposure to frost little too soon.-
There will be a great deal of work IN
the vegetable garden next month, and the
sooner it is commenced the better. The
soil may not be fit for stirring at all
| times on account of rain or frost. but
everything should be got ready 50 that
there may be no delay when the weather
becomes suitable Attention should be
given to the raising of plants in hotbeds,
! and having an abundance Of the choicest
and best ready for transplanting at the
proper time. Buying plants for large
garden is expensive and troublesome, and
those which are offered for sale in the
market are seldom to be relied on. Every
owner or occupant of a garden ought to
have holbed in which to raise cabbage,
cauihower. broccoli. tomatoes. celery,
pepper. egg plant, cucumbers. melons,
etc. These vegetables, and several others,
will be ready for use in their season, when
the plants are raised properly in hotbeds,
and then set out carefully in the open
ground. american CultiUdtOr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-08
mtsfellane0ns.
Milk Inspection.

Prof. J. c. Babcock, milk inspector OF
Boston. in his argument against the pro
position now before the Massachusetts
Legislature to lower the standard of milk.
saws that ga milk adulterator may be just
as much a murderer as if he deliberately
poisoned those who look to him for that
nourishment which nature had otherwise
deni. d them" This is exceedingly strong
language, and raises the question, "what
is milk adulteration that it makes man
murderer" Probably the most common
farm of milk adulteration is the addition
of water, which is put in just to keep
the measure good" What is there crimi-
nal to thisp The farmer and his family
may be able in their strong health to drink
without harm the water from we'll near
the barnyard- this same water may
contain germs of disease, which in the
fl esh milk will multiply rapidly. so that
apparently pure water may carry disease
and death into city households, especially
among the children of crowded tenement
houses and in unhealthy districts patural
Is predisposed TO disease and needing on
| IL the inducing cause which the farmer
who waters his milk may provide. II
the milk producer ships to market with
! other milk that from COW which is fever
ish. off her teed, securing, coughing or
! .l,-;, o1,,. ;oly if ba chime with rood
milk, that from new cows while the milk
! i still in the colestrum stage, or that
from cows too near to calving, does he
come under the condemnation which
Prof. Babcock has issued against adul-
telalors OF milk? 1t is true such
practices, which producers of milk might
resort to, are of the nature of frauds, and
even the lightest and most innocent-if
there be any innocence in plain fraud
make him partner in guilt with the city
retailer no still continues the adulteratlon
and weakening of milk, until its innutri-
tous character causes the death OF scores
of infants. But we rejoice to believe that
little adulteration of milk, If any, is de
| bsrately done by producers. In large
lies, where much of the direct supply
to families is made by retailers, (or about
every grocery store is a milk shop) it may
be- likely that the common water-form OF
increasing bulk in milk is resorted to. In
our own city, and generally throughout
orr State, we believe the best and prrest
nj is furnished to customers. AT any
rate, -ays our milkman, you get the
milk as pure as it comes from our cow"
And this is all we can expect. We do not
believe that milk producer delivers milk
ia Augusta who would adulterate his milk
in any form, or who would knowingly
sell milk from sick, diseased or ailing
COW. So far as the inspection of herds is
concerned we believe that there is not a
milk manufacturer in Augusta who would
Mt be W ling to have his herd inspect ed by
any veterinarian competent to do it, or
who would not be glad to know if he had
an unhealthy cow in his band. Happily,
we believe our herds are in fine condition
md that there is little need Of milk in
spection here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-08
Cats and Glover!

A week or two since we alluded, in a
brief note. to the satisfaction which little
positive scientific knowledge was sure to
bring to its possessor, and also to the
practical benefit such knowledge might be
to him. Here is another simple illustra-
tion of the same fact. At the first glance
how slight connection there appears to
be, between the number of cats in given
section OF farm neighborhoods and the fer
tility Of clover seed in the same place! And
yet. as the great Mr.. Darwin pointed out
in some of his ingenious studies, very
close and intimate relation really exists
between the two most dissimilar facts
Clover always produces most seed in the
neighborhood of towns, where cats are
abundant. And this is accounted for in
this very simple manner. The red clover
blossom has very long tube. concealing
its honey; and the honey can be reached
by only one insect, the humble-bee, which
has a proboscs long enough for the pur.
pose. Hence only humble-bees fertilizer
the clover. carrying the pollen from one
blossom to another on their hairy legs
Accordingly. the more bees, the more
clover seed in any particular place-feld
or meadow. But humble-bees themselves
are largely kept down in number by field
mice and harvest mice which feed upon
them and thin out their nests with great
voracitv. Here we obtain another little
link in this interesting chain of natural
causes-the more field mice the fewer
bumble-bees, and consequently the less
clover seed. Again-another link. Cats eat
rats and mice, and among the fields in the
vicinity of towns harvest mice are far less
numerous than elsewhere. owing to the
depredations of their feline enemies.
Thus the more cats the fewer field mice,
the fewer field mice the more humble
bees, the more humble bees, finally, the
more clover seed. And yet. possibly moi
FINALLY :" for Prof. Huxley has playfully
pushed the chain of causation in this mat
ter one link farther back. and ventured te
add that the setting of the clover-pods
was ultimately influenced by the number
of old maids IN the neighboriug towns
for are not these quiet. benevolent persons
the great friends ard protectors of ole
''tabby cat ?" Mr.. Grant Allen referring
to the above singular and interesting facts
says we might almost add, ii we should
pursue this subject to the very core, that
matrimony is injurious to the interests OF
the clover crop However This may be,
it is true that the more we can know of
natures laws, the more abundant becomes
our use of well attested scientific facts
and the closer we become in our observa-
ton and study of the simple things OF
farm life. the more interesting and tascin
ating the lite OF the farmer becomes.
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NOTICE TO TEACHERS.
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Pension Notice.

The Committee on Pensions will be in session in
me Aidermen's Room on Friday OF each week at ~.
O'Clock T. ~ until further notice, for the considera
uon OF SUCH claims as may be presented.
HENRY G. STAPLES, Committee
WIN. III. WILLIAMS, I on Pensions.
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Don't Make a Fuss.

great many people when annoyed by the small
difficulties of life, add to their troubles by contnu
GUS fret and worry them In this climate ne ar
troubled with throat. In such a case one
should not make great fuss it, but quietly take
some Lactart and Honey. one Of the best prepare
lions for the of coughs and colds that has ever
been introduced to the American people Lactart ID
the pure acid of milk, and compounded in certain
proportions with Honey, has been found to possess
wonderful curative power in the treatment of all
throat troubles.
1t is absolutely free from drugs and therefore con
tains nothing to derange the stomach the nervoue
system. The combination OF "sweet and sour
has been tried again and again, and with uniformly
good results; but nothing et cive in this line al
Lactart and Honey has before been tried Honey
Is known TO be soothing and healing, while Lactari
dissOlves the thickened mucus that gathers in the
throat and in this twofod eec. lies the secret OF the
wonderful success of Lactart and Honey
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MISS A. C. M0RGaNS SCHOOL

FOR YOUNG LADIES. Portsmouth, N, II
reopens Sept ed. j. G.WHITTIER says: "a better
healthier and pieasanter place for a school could
scarcely be found in New England"
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-08

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WE OFFER. SUBJECT TO SALE, AT
OIL and accrued interest,
with Is Der cent CT stock borus,
LIMITED AMOUNT
The orange Belt Railway COS
OF FLORIDA.
FIRST MORTGAGE & PER CENT
$50 YE14R GOLD BONDS.
INTEREST," JANUARY AND JULY.
PAYABLE AT THE FARMERS LOAN
AND TRUST CO., NEW YORK.
DUE 1907.
THE
Orange Belt Railroad
OF FLORIDA.
Extends from Monroe. station on the Jack sonvie,
lampa and Key West Railway, along the west bank
of Lake Monroe, southwesterly through the towns
OF sylvan Lake. raoa, Island Lake Glen Ethel.
vile, Clarkona Mers, and Crown Point to Oak
land, beautiful village located the south shore
OF Lake Apopka distance OF "a miles, and 10 being
rapidly EXTENDED through to Point Pinellas on the
Gulf.
This road passes through the most fertile lands OF
the State OF Florida and the most thrifty belt
OF the STATE. 1t IL doing very satisfactory busi
ness and earning more than the interest Its bond
ed debt, and when completed we no reaaon why
1t should not pay handsome dividends on its stock
as II 10 bonded tor the small amount of o. 900 per
mile.
These bonds are a first and onlv lien OF.
the road and equipment, and in addition
are guaranteed, principal and interest. BY
the Orange Belt Investment Co.. wtscA
Gums large mills at Long,oood that are
earning orer $40, 900 a year net besides
wh'ch the Company haze valuable real
estate and other property, estimated in all,
ruth the mills, to be worth $500. 900, and
iOhen the road is finished to Point Pinellas
1t is estimated that the Investment
Company's property wiH be acorM at least
~, 1000. 900, not including the railroad
and its franchises
The company reserves the right 10 redeem these
bonds at any time after FIVE years. and it is believed
that they will be able to retire them all in five wears
as il is for the interest of the guarantots to do TO-
they being the owners of rs per cent of the stock
which, with the Is per cent we offer, will own the
road after these bonds have been retired and will be
the only lien upon the railroad equipment and fran
chises.
| We look upon this security a good investment
and with rs per cent of stock bonus offered with the
bonds they should command the attention of the in
vesting public.
Griswold 6. Gillett,
| 3WALL ST., NEW YORK.
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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-08-09
Singing in the Home.

Cultivate singing in your family,
begin when the child is not three
years old. The songs and hymns
your childhood sang-bring them
back to your memory and teach them
to your little ones; mix all together,
to meet the very moods that in after
life come over us so mysteriously
sometimes. Many a time and oft,
in the very whirl of life, some little
thing will wake up the memories of
early youth, and we almost see
again the ruddy checks, the smiling
faces and the merry eyes Of the
schoolmates, some grayheaded now !.
some mouldering in the grave; and
anon, "the song mother sang,
springs unbidden to the lips, and
sOothes and sweatcns all these mem1
cries.
At other times, among the crush.
ing mishaps of business, a merry
ditty of the older times pops out of
the head, breaks in upon the train of
thought, throws the mind into
another channel, and light breaks
from the cloud in the sky, and new
courage is given to us.
The honest man goes singing TO his
days work and when his labor is
done, his tools aside, and nc is on his
way home, where wife and tidy table
and CHEEKY freside await him, he can
not help Thfstling or singing.-EE.